Cosmic Penguin
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30 years today, at around this moment, the deadliest single aircraft accident ever in history unfolds over Japan:
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Good hint. :lol:
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Can you also apply ducktyping to USOs? :dry:
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The dramatic news about three of the still rare wolves in Germany killing a Chihuahua after ripping him from the leash of his owner turned out as expected: False.
Genetic analysis has proved that the killer of the "cute little dog" was a domestic dog, with high probability of it being a Wolfhound, which are bred in that village.
Of course, the Bild tabloid will not put this information in huge letters on the title. If at all, its hidden in tiniest possible text among dozens of boring celebrity news. That is how you spread hate... first you inflate dangers and create new big lies, then you hide the correction somewhere in small letters or hope to get away with not printing any correction at all.
http://www.cellesche-zeitung.de/S4251486/Wolfsverdacht-in-Hornbostel-ausgeraeumt
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Thunder Chicken
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Sorry for the delay. The oval vertical stabilizers distinguish them as Lancasters. Halifaxes had trapezoidal vertical stabilizers. The Halifax was somewhat more stocky and the nose was configured differently, Lancaster used in-line Rolls Royce engines vs radial engines, but those are details that changed variant to variant. The tail is the big give away.
Lancaster:
Halifax:
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fsci123
Future Dubstar and Rocketkid
Since not a lot of people here are experts at music production I thought I might ask this here...
If you heard a mix of songs would you prefer if it started at 87bpm to get people going or 70bpm then transition to fast stuff.
If you heard a mix of songs would you prefer if it started at 87bpm to get people going or 70bpm then transition to fast stuff.
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Don't you think that this is a strong matter of taste and thus depends on the audience?
Also, 87 bpm is not fast. The French Foreign Legion would not even call it a fast march. 70 bpm would be called narcotic here.
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Sorry for the delay. The oval vertical stabilizers distinguish them as Lancasters. Halifaxes had trapezoidal vertical stabilizers. The Halifax was somewhat more stocky and the nose was configured differently, Lancaster used in-line Rolls Royce engines vs radial engines, but those are details that changed variant to variant. The tail is the big give away.
Lancaster:
Halifax:
There was a Mark of the Halifax with RR Merlins, as there was a short production run of the Lancaster with the Bristol Hercules, if I am not mistaken. The only one of the three heavies that, as far as I know did not have Merlins at some stage was the Stirling. That the last mentioned one was a death trap was not, however, the engines' fault, but an RAF design specification that limited the wingspan to fit inside a standard hangar, restricting its ceiling. Ridiculous.
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Quick_Nick
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Former POTUS Jimmy Carter, 90, announced that he was recently found to have cancer.
"Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare. A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week."
"Recent liver surgery revealed that I have cancer that now is in other parts of my body. I will be rearranging my schedule as necessary so I can undergo treatment by physicians at Emory Healthcare. A more complete public statement will be made when facts are known, possibly next week."
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jedidia
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bpm is usually the least useful indicator of how energetic a piece is. As for the composition of playlists, it depends on the goal. Iron rule for when the list is used for advertisment: Catchiest song goes first, it doesn't have an intro, and it reaches its energetic peak within the first 30 seconds for the first time (in fact, it's recommendable that it starts at the peak). Then you arrange the playlist in the order that you think keeps people hooked the most when they're listening to it for the first time. (As a song that is catchiest to listen to is usually not the one you can listen to the most, and since you heard your own songs a thousand+ times until that point, it's usually good to ask outsiders what they think.
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Andy44
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This is supposed to be the "humor" random comments thread...that's a bit of a downer. I'm no fan of Carter's politics but I think he's a good man and hate to hear this.
He's also a nuclear engineer, so he's part of the tech nerd community, technically.
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I've seen bad news posted on this thread sometimes even though it's tagged "Humor"
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By the way, Bruce. I don't know if you already have this information, but if your great uncle served in the RCAF, you should be able to retrieve his war record free by writing to the following address;
Access of Information, Privacy and Document Delivery Services Division,
395 Wellington Street,
Ottowa, Ontario,
K1A 0N4
I got the war record of an RCAF aircrew member who flew with my father during the war from this source, and they are very helpful.
If he served in the RAF, you'll have to pay for the war record, and will probably only get a restricted version for your pains.
Good luck, if you have not tried it yet.
fsci123
Future Dubstar and Rocketkid
I did it by bpm because I didn't expect anyone here to know the difference between dnb/drumstep and dubstep. But that's was lot of good advice you said. Thanks
Also, Wikipedia just went down.
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I finally found my Windows Product key after 14 months. I need to clear some 
out of my workspot, it's seriously getting real cluttered now.
...Why are movie remakes/reboots so much more worst than the original, even if there's a 30+ year difference between them?!
out of my workspot, it's seriously getting real cluttered now....Why are movie remakes/reboots so much more worst than the original, even if there's a 30+ year difference between them?!
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Because the writers lack real imagination, which is what inspired the originals in the first place.
Directors just like to work, and will make anything as long as it pays...
Andy44
owner: Oil Creek Astronautix
Remakes can't capture the magic of seeing the subject for the first time the way you did when you were 12 years old and had no idea what a "ghostbuster" was.
It really is amazing how with all this technology so many modern movies suck so horribly. The good films are not the big budget blockbusters. I saw Whiplash a while back and it was an outstanding film. Also Drive. Reminds me of the thoughtful films of the 70s. Not much in the way of special effects but gripping stories and lots of stuff to think about. Not at all like the mindless remakes/reboots.
It really is amazing how with all this technology so many modern movies suck so horribly. The good films are not the big budget blockbusters. I saw Whiplash a while back and it was an outstanding film. Also Drive. Reminds me of the thoughtful films of the 70s. Not much in the way of special effects but gripping stories and lots of stuff to think about. Not at all like the mindless remakes/reboots.
MaverickSawyer
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Which is why I tend to avoid reboots whenever possible. New stuff? Sign me up.
